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Poems of Tom Higgins

1. A Cumbrian Lament 3/13/2012
2. A Different Light 4/28/2012
3. A Question Of Morality 6/28/2012
4. A Questioning Mind 1/3/2013
5. A Secret Little Prayer 10/21/2012
6. A Whisper On The Breeze 1/3/2013
7. Another Year Older 2/23/2013
8. Believe Only What You Can Test By Observation 2/21/2012
9. Blind Faith 3/5/2012
10. Can You See The Cookie Tree? 4/5/2012
11. Cat And Mouse 3/3/2012
12. Chances Are? 2/21/2012
13. Come Into My Parlour 3/17/2012
14. Communications Breakdown? 10/15/2012
15. Count Your Blessings 2/21/2012
16. 'Curiosity' Killed The Cat! 8/5/2012
17. Das Kapital? 12/14/2012
18. Democracy? What Happened? 4/14/2012
19. Divine Non-Intervention! 8/6/2012
20. Dovecote Dictator 3/13/2012

Count Your Blessings

Often circumstances can conspire,
to make a life's experience dire.
If this should ever happen to you,
this is what you ought to do.
Look around yourself to see,
if there is a worse place you could be,
and usually you'll find 'tis so,
there's somewhere worse where you could go,
and the poor beggars dwelling there,

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